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1800 Martha Washington NP

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1800 Martha Washington NP
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The Philadelphia Aurora and General Advertiser newspaper. Philadelphia: 1800. Inside page exchange of letters between the United States Congress and the widow of recently deceased first president George Washington. Earliest newspaper printing of a letter signed by Martha Washington and written from her home at Mount Vernon, VA. Benjamin Franklin Bache Market Street, Philadelphia, while that city was the home of the United States Federal Congress and the United States President. Washington, D. C. was at that time being built from scratch as the new permanent Federal Capital. Anti- Federalist newspaper supportive of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party. Very good condition.